NCP Chief Whip Yubaraj Dulal said, ”The Prime Minister's statement in Parliament yesterday that Nepal has also encroached on Indian territory in many places is not only ignorance about the border issue, but also a statement that is more seriously against the national interest.”
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Nepal Communist Party Chief Whip Yubaraj Dulal has said that Prime Minister Balendra Shah is ignorant about the Nepal-India border issue.
In the House of Representatives meeting on Monday, NCP Chief Whip Dulal said that the Prime Minister is ignorant about the border issue. 'The Prime Minister's statement in Parliament yesterday that Nepal has also encroached on Indian land in many places is not only ignorance about the border issue, but it is also a statement that is more serious and goes against the national interest,' Dulal said, 'This encroachment by the Indian army is not a matter of comparing it with the cultivation of crops in ten yards. India has neither said that Nepal has encroached on our border here, nor has our army occupied any Indian land, nor is there any such data. Therefore, Nepal has not encroached on Indian land.'
The Prime Minister has made a serious mistake by speaking without facts, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' statement was also a mistake, Dulal said. 'It is a serious mistake for the Prime Minister of a sovereign country to speak on a matter without facts like this, and it is another mistake for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to defend the Prime Minister by saying that it is a matter of 'cross-border occupation' on the issue of Dasgaja,' Dulal added, 'It is our national claim that India has encroached on about 60,000 hectares of Nepal's land, including Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura, and Kalapani.'
Dulal said that the Prime Minister's statement showed a lack of willpower and diplomatic immaturity to recover the encroached land. He added, 'The surprising thing is that the Prime Minister rushed to make this statement on the eve of the visit of the president of the ruling party to India. It is not a gift given to India on the occasion of the visit to India, but has created serious doubts.'
Dulal said from the rostrum of the Parliament that the statement made by the Prime Minister was misleading and demanded that it be withdrawn. He said that the Prime Minister should admit his mistake.
Prime Minister Shah, while answering a question from Shram Sanskriti Party MP Aren Rai in the House of Representatives on Sunday, had said that efforts are being made to resolve the Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura disputes diplomatically. However, in the process, he had said, 'You may find one thing surprising. I also came to know after becoming the Prime Minister recently that not only has India encroached on Nepal's land, but Nepal has also encroached on a lot of India's land.'
Opposition parties are obstructing the House of Representatives meeting over Prime Minister Shah's statement.
